Habitat to dedicate two homes
from the Steubenville Herald-Star, Monday, February 28, 2005
EMPIRE - Two families will have a reason to smile Friday when the Greater Steubenville Area Habitat for Humanity formally hands over the keys to their new homes.
"It's two houses, the families moved in for Christmas, but Friday is the formal dedication," said Bob Leonard, director. "This is the formal handing over of the keys," he added.
The Smith and Davisson and Bender families will open their homes at 10 a.m. Friday to those who helped make it possible.
Ken Yeager, First Energy Inc. human resources director, will be the speaker at the event. Three local clergymen will bless the homes with a benediction.
Habitat will present each family with a gift of a bible, symbolizing Habitat's Christian ministry.
Leonard said the volunteers who assisted in the construction will be invited to tour the homes they helped build and to attend a reception afterward.
He added the Empire Mayor Frank Martin and members of the community were invited to attend the reception and meet their new neighbors.
United Way Director Suzanne Kresser may also attend, said Leonard. He said Habitat for Humanity was seeking to become a United Way member agency.
He said the project was made possible through the generosity of several area groups and businesses, including First Energy, CT Consultants, the Meadowbrook Church of God in Rayland, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, the plumbers union, the Colonial Baptist Church in Wintersville, and the Findlay United Methodist Church in Steubenville.
Leonard also thanked Whirlpool, which delivered an electric range and refrigerator to the homes Thursday through a national corporate partnership with Habitat.
He also praised the Smith and Davisson and Bender families for their hard work in helping build their homes.
"They really put their sweat equity in," said Leonard.
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